What, now I need an extra license if somebody's visiting and they want to check their mail?
I agree with the spirit of what you're saying here, but the priciple difference is that in one case you are giving permission, while in the other you are not.
Police say Benjamin Smith III, 41, used his Acer brand laptop to hack into Dinon's wireless Internet network.
Yeah, because we all know how much "hacking" is required to use wide open WiFi connections.
Also, the poor guy admitted to using the connection too (unauthorized access to a computer network, which is a third degree felony according to the article). Now, if he would have just asked for a lawyer and then shut up, he probably would have gotten off with just a warning.
Somone needs to put together a description on how a "social engineering" penetration test should be done objectivly. If there is one out there please let me know. =P
Kevin Mitnick has written some interesting books that cover social engineering attacks extensively. More info here and here. They are a must read for anyone working in security.
Say company A and company B both produce competing products. Company A produces their product for $50. Company B, however, sets up a sweat shop full of children working night and day. They can sell their product for only $35.
Now how can you say that you can knowingly buy the cheaper product with a good conscience? Money isn't the only thing that matters in this world. This is what's wrong with humans. Don't you get it yet? We all have a responsibility to each other.
Enjoy eating your lobster while others starve asshole.
American culture, yes. However, I blame it more specifically on the Internet, computers, and technology. Today, kids grow up sending text messages, communicating over instant message clients, chatting via IRC, etc. In these types of conversations abbreviations, shorthand, and even (shutter) l33tspeak are the norm.
Most people don't care if the person they are chatting with is using perfect English... and they certainly don't care about "minor" things like correct spelling and grammar; all that really matters is that the message gets across quickly, and is understood on the other end.
What concerns me is how all this shorthand is hurting people in other areas of their life. In a business enviroment, writing an e-mail (or anything really) that uses any "netspeak" type shorthand, makes you look, in my eyes, like a lazy idiot.
Umm, I'm in the US Air Force. About 95% of the contractors here are retired military or ex-military. The VAST majority of the remaining 5% are US citizens.
Sure, these companies are American. They have friends in high places and all that, but make no mistake: they are soldiers of fortune through and through.
No, they are retired US military who already receive a retirement paycheck from the government. A big part of what they do comes from national pride. Otherwise they wouldn't have spent 20+ years in the service, trust me.
Let me get this straight: You think the US government would like to contract out its entire military to a FOREIGN mercenary force? Sorry friend, but I just don't see it happening, not in a million years.
Americans take a lot of pride in fighting the battles themselves. There's too much distrust of other countries, red tape, legal concerns, and the like for this type of thing to happen.
What the government would like to do (and is doing) is to contract out most of the non-combat jobs in the military, things like services, maintenance, logistics, even CONUS base security, etc. That way they can retrain the GIs that were doing those jobs into combat roles ("Sorry Jonny. I know the recruiter told ya' you'd be handing out towels and serving up soup in the chow hall. Here's your M4.").
You make some interesting predictions there peaches. I'm happy that you have such an active imagination. However, I'm not interested in your dogmatic rhetoric. Why? Because, frankly, it's irrelavant to my parent post. I want to know what he plans to give me, not you.
It's a safe statement to say that DVDs will be replaced at some time in the future. Well DUH. The problem with the article is that it's so open ended. If the article would have stated the points you made above (or anything really), my post wouldn't have been so hard on the guy.
That being said, I don't think DVDs or DVD derivatives are going away any time soon. It's possible that some broadband based system will take hold and be the majority leader on content delivery (given enough time); yet I still refuse to believe that DVDs will be a "flash in the pan," even if the definition of flash in the pan is "temporary success with no long term effects." Come on, do you really beleive DVDs won't have any long-term effects?
And by the way, I don't care what nationality Tchuruk is. He's responsible for what he says; and if he was misquoted, then that's the translator's fault. I can only comment on what he gives me, and he gave me crap.
His job is not looking out of the window and saying "DVDs are popular". No, it's about looking 10 years into the future, realising that communications in 2015 are going to be very different from what we have today, and then steering the company into that future, using the opportunities and avoiding the threats to maximum shareholders' satisfaction.
Steering the company where? He never specifies, all he says is "broadband". We already have broadband. What is it that he will add/invent/innovate that will make me stop buying DVDs.
See he said DVDs will only be a "flash in the pan". That's what makes him the idiot. DVDs are already well established, and only an idiot would make a statement like that. "Flash in the pan" implies that the technology will never takes hold. OBVIOUSLY it has.
You are an idiot and that guy is a chief executive of Alcatel.
Will broadband kill off the DVD?
Short answer: No.
The DVD format will be nothing more than a flash in the pan, according to the chief executive of Alcatel.
Come on people. This article is just plain stupid. I can see the DVD being upgraded, for more storage capacity (see blue-ray), I can see the DVD fading away gradually (like VHS); but saying that Joe Sixpack will suddenly stop buying DVDs and use, say a broadband connected Tivo-like-device, is ludicrous. Technology lingers. That's why Microsoft has to build in special modes in their OS to run older programs. People still use legacy technology! Hell, I still have a tape player in my car.:-)
But I'm getting ahead of myself. The article doesn't talk about Tivos, Internet TV streams, or some new emerging technology. In fact, it doesn't really mention anything!
I'm not sure how articles like this end up on slashdot. I should write an article: New Power Source will replace Gasoline!
However, I still must argue the point that it's still possible (although rare) that a person can meet all the standards and stay out of trouble, yet still not be promoted. For these situations, saying
"...there are many steps of punishment prior to finally not being reccomended for retention"
just doesn't hold up. That's where high year tenure comes in, which relates directly back to the parent story.
I think we are agree more than we disagree. I'm from the Air Force side of the house; I'm not sure what branch you have experience with.
However I can tell you this: the Air Force does keep people around who are borderline useless.:-)
For that to happen, there are well documented specific conditions that the service member would have to not meet before there would be a seperation from the military.
No, it's called High Year of Tenure. Regardless of conduct, if you fail to be promoted, you WILL be separated. In the Air Force, you take a test for promotion (among other things). Some Airman are exemplary, yet do not test well.
For example, Senior Airman (E-4s) in the USAF that don't make Staff Sergeant (E-5) by their 12 year mark, make their high year tenure. They are given involuntary separation pay (of I think about $12,000, though I'm not sure), and discharge papers.
I actually think MS Office is pretty good. I actually liked Word 97 a lot. I was just trying to point out extra fluff that MS Office has that OO.o doesn't. It's one of the reasons I like OO.o so much.
Feature categories include increased interoperability with Microsoft Office...
Hopefully the OpenOffice team has incorperated support for Clippy (finally!!). It's the one thing that's been keeping me from leaving MS Office. I just love that little guy. He's so helpful.
I just don't know what I would do without all the incredibly useful toolbars in MS Office! Publishing my documents to the web, imbedding oh-so useful macros into all my documents. I like to turn them all on at the same time. I think there might even be an FTP client in there somewhere. You know what else I like about MS Office? I totally love th
Does anybody know how much ID you need to get a driver's license? My little brother went to get his, and I guess they require like 4 separate forms of ID. How can they resonably expect a highschooler to have 4 different forms of ID? AND they wouldn't except his school ID. He ended up having to bring in his birth certificate and everything.
If you understand what the problem was, and why the DIs were doing what they were doing, why did you hate those guys?
Because they made it harder for the rest of us. Remember that it was a stressful time for everyone there, and we were all a team. So one guy screwing up was a problem for all of us. I understood how the guy was feeling. We all tried to help the guy. He didn't listen; couldn't cope. Everyone else ends up carrying this guy and his responsibilities, which puts more stress on you. I had (still have) a hard time understanding why some people can't fold a T-shirt correctly, or lace their boots right. Everything we did in Basic was shown and explained to us; we even had a manual with procedures in it!
I sympathize with with the "smart stupids" (and I mean that in a good way). I feel bad they never learned common sense. The military isn't for everyone.
....Thus they do not deal with stress on a regular basis.
I agree with you on this. I am in the US Air Force, and during basic training (a very mentally stressful time), I noticed that it was always the "book smart" guys who cracked under the pressure. I mean these guys got 4.0s in high school, scored perfect on the ASVAB test (not that it was that hard), yet they LITERALLY could not tie their shoes right. Needless to say the MTIs (Military Training Instructors, or "Drill Sargeants") DIDN'T like all that too much. Because of that, they flagged themselves, and thus drew more attention and therefore stress upon themselves. It was guys like that that the rest of us in the flight hated, which again compounded the stress levels for these poor guys.
I know a guy who used to call people in this category "smart stupid" (hehe). As in they could rattle off the quadratic equation effortlessly (smart), but couldn't dress themselves correctly in the morning (stupid).
But no worries, if the smart stupids make it through basic training, and stay in the military long enough, they get better.
Correct me if I'm wrong people, but burning the flag IS illegal. I got this from the US CODE Main Site.
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 33--EMBLEMS, INSIGNIA, AND NAMES
Sec. 700. Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties
(a)(1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. (2) This subsection does not prohibit any conduct consisting of the disposal of a flag when it has become worn or soiled. (b) As used in this section, the term ``flag of the United States'' means any flag of the United States, or any part thereof, made of any substance, of any size, in a form that is commonly displayed. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of Congress to deprive any State, territory, possession, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of jurisdiction over any offense over which it would have jurisdiction in the absence of this section. (d)(1) An appeal may be taken directly to the Supreme Court of the United States from any interlocutory or final judgment, decree, or order issued by a United States district court ruling upon the constitutionality of subsection (a). (2) The Supreme Court shall, if it has not previously ruled on the question, accept jurisdiction over the appeal and advance on the docket and expedite to the greatest extent possible.
(Added Pub. L. 90-381, Sec. 1, July 5, 1968, 82 Stat. 291; amended Pub. L. 101-131, Secs. 2, 3, Oct. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 777.)
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Also, the poor guy admitted to using the connection too (unauthorized access to a computer network, which is a third degree felony according to the article). Now, if he would have just asked for a lawyer and then shut up, he probably would have gotten off with just a warning.
I don't agree with you.
Say company A and company B both produce competing products. Company A produces their product for $50. Company B, however, sets up a sweat shop full of children working night and day. They can sell their product for only $35.
Now how can you say that you can knowingly buy the cheaper product with a good conscience? Money isn't the only thing that matters in this world. This is what's wrong with humans. Don't you get it yet? We all have a responsibility to each other.
Enjoy eating your lobster while others starve asshole.
Well, you got me there. Thank you for the correction.
American culture, yes. However, I blame it more specifically on the Internet, computers, and technology. Today, kids grow up sending text messages, communicating over instant message clients, chatting via IRC, etc. In these types of conversations abbreviations, shorthand, and even (shutter) l33tspeak are the norm.
Most people don't care if the person they are chatting with is using perfect English... and they certainly don't care about "minor" things like correct spelling and grammar; all that really matters is that the message gets across quickly, and is understood on the other end.
What concerns me is how all this shorthand is hurting people in other areas of their life. In a business enviroment, writing an e-mail (or anything really) that uses any "netspeak" type shorthand, makes you look, in my eyes, like a lazy idiot.
No, they are retired US military who already receive a retirement paycheck from the government. A big part of what they do comes from national pride. Otherwise they wouldn't have spent 20+ years in the service, trust me.
Let me get this straight: You think the US government would like to contract out its entire military to a FOREIGN mercenary force? Sorry friend, but I just don't see it happening, not in a million years.
Americans take a lot of pride in fighting the battles themselves. There's too much distrust of other countries, red tape, legal concerns, and the like for this type of thing to happen.
What the government would like to do (and is doing) is to contract out most of the non-combat jobs in the military, things like services, maintenance, logistics, even CONUS base security, etc. That way they can retrain the GIs that were doing those jobs into combat roles ("Sorry Jonny. I know the recruiter told ya' you'd be handing out towels and serving up soup in the chow hall. Here's your M4.").
Umm, just get a tape deck, plug the output into your soundcard via a Y cord, and dump the sound. Then you can encode/compress/whatever.
And it's all going to be done through a goverment agency call the Thought Police.
Next, Telescreens and microphones in every home!
You make some interesting predictions there peaches. I'm happy that you have such an active imagination. However, I'm not interested in your dogmatic rhetoric. Why? Because, frankly, it's irrelavant to my parent post. I want to know what he plans to give me, not you.
It's a safe statement to say that DVDs will be replaced at some time in the future. Well DUH. The problem with the article is that it's so open ended. If the article would have stated the points you made above (or anything really), my post wouldn't have been so hard on the guy.
That being said, I don't think DVDs or DVD derivatives are going away any time soon. It's possible that some broadband based system will take hold and be the majority leader on content delivery (given enough time); yet I still refuse to believe that DVDs will be a "flash in the pan," even if the definition of flash in the pan is "temporary success with no long term effects." Come on, do you really beleive DVDs won't have any long-term effects?
And by the way, I don't care what nationality Tchuruk is. He's responsible for what he says; and if he was misquoted, then that's the translator's fault. I can only comment on what he gives me, and he gave me crap.
Steering the company where? He never specifies, all he says is "broadband". We already have broadband. What is it that he will add/invent/innovate that will make me stop buying DVDs.
See he said DVDs will only be a "flash in the pan". That's what makes him the idiot. DVDs are already well established, and only an idiot would make a statement like that. "Flash in the pan" implies that the technology will never takes hold. OBVIOUSLY it has.
Well, I lubs you too peaches.
Short answer: No.
Come on people. This article is just plain stupid. I can see the DVD being upgraded, for more storage capacity (see blue-ray), I can see the DVD fading away gradually (like VHS); but saying that Joe Sixpack will suddenly stop buying DVDs and use, say a broadband connected Tivo-like-device, is ludicrous. Technology lingers. That's why Microsoft has to build in special modes in their OS to run older programs. People still use legacy technology! Hell, I still have a tape player in my car.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. The article doesn't talk about Tivos, Internet TV streams, or some new emerging technology. In fact, it doesn't really mention anything!
I'm not sure how articles like this end up on slashdot. I should write an article: New Power Source will replace Gasoline!
Hey, put me on slashdot!
However, I still must argue the point that it's still possible (although rare) that a person can meet all the standards and stay out of trouble, yet still not be promoted. For these situations, saying just doesn't hold up. That's where high year tenure comes in, which relates directly back to the parent story.
I think we are agree more than we disagree. I'm from the Air Force side of the house; I'm not sure what branch you have experience with.
However I can tell you this: the Air Force does keep people around who are borderline useless.
For example, Senior Airman (E-4s) in the USAF that don't make Staff Sergeant (E-5) by their 12 year mark, make their high year tenure. They are given involuntary separation pay (of I think about $12,000, though I'm not sure), and discharge papers.
For more info see here.
Well, I only jest.
I actually think MS Office is pretty good. I actually liked Word 97 a lot. I was just trying to point out extra fluff that MS Office has that OO.o doesn't. It's one of the reasons I like OO.o so much.
I just don't know what I would do without all the incredibly useful toolbars in MS Office! Publishing my documents to the web, imbedding oh-so useful macros into all my documents. I like to turn them all on at the same time. I think there might even be an FTP client in there somewhere. You know what else I like about MS Office? I totally love th
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Does anybody know how much ID you need to get a driver's license? My little brother went to get his, and I guess they require like 4 separate forms of ID. How can they resonably expect a highschooler to have 4 different forms of ID? AND they wouldn't except his school ID. He ended up having to bring in his birth certificate and everything.
How much is too much?
I sympathize with with the "smart stupids" (and I mean that in a good way). I feel bad they never learned common sense. The military isn't for everyone.
I would say "loosen up."
Contrary to popular belief, the military can't change who you are.
Sorry, Sergeant, not Sargeant. That doesn't set a good example now does it?
I know a guy who used to call people in this category "smart stupid" (hehe). As in they could rattle off the quadratic equation effortlessly (smart), but couldn't dress themselves correctly in the morning (stupid).
But no worries, if the smart stupids make it through basic training, and stay in the military long enough, they get better.
What I'm really afrid of is old people who drive while talking on a cell phone!
Be afraid people, be very afraid.